Back to default world
I probably shouldn’t laugh, but…
More chaos has unfolded at the Burning Man festival as revellers clashed during the exodus from the Nevada desert.
Attendees finally began leaving the city at Black Rock City on Monday afternoon after severe flooding and muddy conditions left thousands stranded over the weekend.
During the mass exodus, Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen said that attendees “lashed out” at each other as they faced an eight-hour wait to leave. “As usually happens in what Burners refer to as the ‘default world’ people allow their emotions to override their reasonableness and they are lashing out at each other as they leave the playa and attempt to make it to their next destination,” he told the San Francisco Chronicle.
Peace and love, man, peace and love.
The annual burning of the man went ahead on Monday evening, after being delayed by the weather.
Yay! That little bit more carbon added!
I have to admit, I laughed. Well, snorted, at least. Something about counter-culture believers who pay money for a ticket to a counter-culture festival, and then get stuck in the mud and finally escape by driving in orderly lanes out of the desert tickles my absurdity bone like almost nothing else. I’ve little doubt that the former friend who attended each year while I knew him, and who not-so-good-naturedly ridiculed me for taking a “straight” job (he was a bartender), was stuck in this mud and, I am sure, lost his temper at it.
I mean, sure, get mad at society, and all, but don’t laugh at the system if you’re paying into it while being sold the fantasy that you’re not.